If it were not for modern bows and the hunters they brought into the sport you would have NO bow season.
Oh, puh-leeze! Rack, we had bow seasons a good long while before the compound was invented. Listen: I'll type it real slow for you.
Bow seasons were established to be a recreational, low or no herd impact form of hunting. Bow season was never meant to be a game management tool. That was and is the purpose of GUN season. Hunter success rates have increased over the years so that NOW bow season has become part of the overall game management program.
In MY state, Texas, the one month bow season has not changed and the only change it will likely ever make is to be cut. The reason is, bowhunter success has the gun hunters pissed. Their reason for being angry? They claim bowhunters take too many of the big boys in early season, before the gun hunters get a crack at them.
You go telling these gun hunters around here that they should be thanking you for killing so many deer and you're liable to get the seat of your pants loaded with buckshot.
But it seems the smoke screen of family values, tradition, the "essence" and sanctity of the sport has lifted. And the true unjustified selfish fears of loosing hunting time come to the forefront.
Quit acting like a moron because I know you're not one! They are all parts of the whole picture, AS I SEE IT.